Six colours sit in the official name of this Air Max 1: Grain, Burnt Sunrise, Plum Fog, Violet Dust, Deep Royal Blue and Pure Platinum. That reads like a shoe you would spot three streets away. On the photo it is far calmer than that, and it comes down to one choice: almost everything sits on a cream base.
The mudguard is rough, sand-coloured suede, and the same tone runs through the midsole under the whole shoe. On top of it the colour blocks all stay small. The finely ribbed textile on the toe and side panel is off-white with a faint blue cast. The Swoosh is rust-orange suede. There is a cobalt block on the toe, a teal patch by the eyestay, and ochre on top of the tongue. And then the lilac.
The lilac runs all the way into the heel
Yes, of course that is what I noticed first. The side panel under the Swoosh is a soft, dusty-pink lilac, and at the back that tone shifts into a warmer, rawer pink on the heel. Even the laces are powder pink. I am not objective the moment there is pink involved, so read this paragraph with a pinch of salt — but it genuinely is the colour that holds the rest together. Take the lilac out and you are left with loose accents that have nothing to do with one another.
What makes it wearable is that cream underside. Because the mudguard and midsole share the same sandy tone, from a distance the shoe reads as one calm whole with some colour laid on top. Under straight jeans or ecru trousers that works with nothing extra to think about. If you would rather the pink did not take over, you get a long way with neutral top layers in that same cream-and-beige corner.
The nickname is Tan Lines, and where it comes from is no mystery once you look at the midsole: not flat white but warm and softly graded, as if it had spent a summer outside. The pair dropped on 5 December 2023 as a women’s model.
The spread is wide, and your size decides where you land
On Solezilla.com we see nine active offers today across nine shops, all priced in euros — there is no UK or US listing on this pair, so anyone paying in pounds or dollars should add shipping and import to whatever they read here. The floor sits at €173.96 at Side Kicks, with Mentastore, The Attic, House of Sneakers and Sneaker Ask bunched between roughly €180 and €190, then Geturbrick and StockX just under €200 and Collect District at €249. One listing at HYPENEEDZ jumps to €415, and that is a single outlier — do not treat it as a second from-price. This is a women’s model, so anything above a 41 is simply thin on the ground, and that is where the price climbs.
The Hypescore sits at 86, band ATOMIC, which mostly means it is still being searched for and the supply is not widening on its own. Would I wear it myself? Yes — and I would spend longer finding the right price than deciding. On a shoe where the difference can run past €240, lining up the nine shops and filtering on your own size is not wasted effort. The rest of the Nike colourways sit right beside the Tan Lines listing.